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Modern Italy
Journal of Modern Italian Studies
RIVISTA DI STUDI ITALIANI
Anno IX , n° 1, Giugno 1991 ( Note e Rassegne ) pag. 84-93
RATIONAL THOUGHT AND POSTMODERNISM:
A COMMENTARY ON HWA YOL JUNG'S
ANALYSIS OF THE POSTMODERN MIND
MARCEL DANESI
University of Toronto,
Toronto, Ontario
Introduction
In the cognitive sciences, the epistemological and methodological focus has always been, and continues to be, on human thought as essentially a rational process involved in deduction, problem-solving, and other mental operations which characterize logical and analytical forms of mentality. As Howard Gardner1 points out, the traditional approaches to the study of mind — philosophy, psychology, linguistics, anthropology, neuroscience, and artificial intelligence — have concentrated on studying this elusive feature of human nature through an analysis of easily determinable mental states and activities. [...]
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